Spanish painter Raimundo de Madrazo (1841—1920) was one of the most successful portraitists of his time. He mostly lived in Paris, where he painted elegantly dressed...
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For many decades, “Avant le Bal” was held in the collection of the prominent Gammell family of Providence and Newport, Rhode Island. As Professor William Coles...
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725—1805) was a French Rococo portrait and genre painter. He could boast such high-placed patrons as Ange Laurent de La Live de Jully, the Empress...
This rarely seen trademark portrait of Giovanni Boldini (1842—1931) represents Helena (known as Ena) Wertheimer, one of the two daughters of the prominent London art...
In the present work, Édouard Bisson (1856—1945) has used his favoured soft palette to show light shimmering through ethereal clouds and opaque dresses. Nymphs...
A Venetian Rococo female painter Rosalba Carriera (1675—1757) specialised in portrait miniature and pastels. Carriera is best known for her innovative approach to...
Édouard Bisson (1856—1945) was a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme and exhibited at the Salon until 1939. He gained popularity for his works from around 1900 which...
American painter William McGregor Paxton (1869—1941) often depicted refined women —such as his patrons’ wives and daughters—at leisure in handsome Boston interiors of...
“The Letter” was painted in 1880 when Paul-César Helleu (1859—1927) was just twenty-one at a time when he was sharing a studio in Paris with John Singer Sargent. The...
François Martin-Kavel (1861—1931) was a French genre painter. Best known for his idealised portraits of women, his work often depicts them in exorcised costumes or in...
Roman-born Raimundo de Madrazo y Garretta (1841—1920) was from a distinguished Spanish family of artists. His Grandfather, Jose de Madrazo, was primarily a neoclassical...
Edmund Charles Tarbell (1862—1938) was considered one of the leading painters of his day. He was the head of the Boston School of artists, dubbed the "Tarbellites," by...
This portrait almost certainly date from the early 1770s, one of the most brilliant and fertile periods in Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s (1732—1806) career. It is very...
In style and date this magnificent portrait is a mature work by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732—1806) and epitomise the combination of virtuoso paintwork and rococo...
This delicate Rococo style painting belongs to a suite of decorations commissioned in 1768 from François Boucher by Jean-François Bergeret de Frouville for his private...
Although the traditional identification of this portrait as a depiction of François Boucher's great patron, Madame de Pompadour, is no longer accepted, the sitter was...
“The Muse Erato” has traditionally been believed to have been painted for the Pompadour as an overdoor for one of her homes. By the time Madame de Pompadour engaged...
